Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas The Hispanic Republican Conference within the Texas State Legislature has been growing. TexasGOPVote & VOCES Action conducted a series of personal interviews with individual members of the Hispanic Republican Conference. Click on the Representatives name below to watch each full interview.
Hispanics make up 36 of the Texas population and this percentage is growing. Hispanics share Republican conservative values of:
- Fiscal Responsibility
- Faith
- Hard Work
- Family Values and
- are Pro-Life
- The importance of attracting Latinos to the GOP
- Why they chose to become a member of the Hispanic Republican Conference and
- Discussed the issues that concerned the people of their districts.
Rep. Aaron Pea - Aaron Pea discusses his recent switch from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party and what led him to do so. He also discusses the Obama Administrations failure to take action on border security and immigration.
Rep. Larry Gonzales - Larry Gonzales discusses education cuts and explains Theres no way around the fact that educations going to have to be cut but you do it wisely and you do it carefully and you make correct decisions…Teacher in the classroom kids in the classroom theres your core you go out from there making your cuts.
Rep. Raul Torres - Raul Torres discusses his ideas with regard to efficiency and the application of the six-sigma principles to improve efficiency in government HB3149. ...As we looked into it we got really excited... In every case federal state and local government... has found significant savings to their programs.
Rep. John Garza - John Garza discusses his immigration bill House Concurrent Resolution 88 (HCR 88). He explains that HCR 88 urges Congress to enact an overhaul of the immigration system to promote national security and economic prosperity.
Rep. Jose Aliseda - Jose Aliseda discusses the importance of Voter ID legislations and how the Democrats are deliberately trying to confuse the issue with race. ...In my speech on the floor I didnt mention race or ethnicity one time. I talked about ACORN and I talked about Americans wanting to believe that their election system is at least as safe as renting a movie at Blockbuster.
Former Speaker Tom Craddick - Tom Craddick discusses the oil and gas industry and its importance to Texas. He also discussed the importance of reaching out to the Latino community ...were seeing more and more where the issues the legislative process... the Hispanics are moving more and more with the Republicans and they realize that faith jobs education hard work all those are common grounds.
Rep. Dee Margo - Dee Margo discusses HCR88 the need for a rational immigration process and security in El Paso. ...My grandfather came from the Rio Grande Valley the Hispanics that Ive seen in El Paso and were overwhelmingly Hispanic are very conservative... the 3 Fs faith family and freedom. Theyre in favor of American values in spite of how they may be portrayed by certain political parties...
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